Modeling genetic and environmental components

Overview

  • Originally presented: Day 3, June 3, 2026
  • Leads: Hermine Maes
  • Topics: heritability, variance components, matrix approaches, IBD vs IBS, family and twin modeling

Lectures

This series of lectures can be viewed on a YouTube playlist.

Slides

Modeling/Estimating genetic and environmental components

Estimate heritability using data from relatives/twins

Modeling genetic and environmental sources of variation in a single trait

Modeling genetic and environmental sources of variation in multiple traits

Practicals